awww

[nigeltde]

http://www.emode.com/tests/jumpto?test=evil Apparently I'm a walking-talking Disney movie. And I'm ridiculously good. That's no fun.

I'm not nearly as nutty as a fruitcake :-(

In my past life I was a dog

I am guilty of sloth

And, apparently, my IQ is 127, but I've no idea where that fits on some sort of scale. Stupid emode.

Take a look at this. It's a nice little rant that that comes from someone who doesn't even appear to be a slasher . It's nicely put; while it does rehash some old stuff, she's put forward some points that I've never thought of before, such as: Why is there no male equivalent of 'fag hag'? Don't be discouraged by the apparent focus on comics.

Also, I saw A Beautiful Thing today. What a sweet, sweet movie, I'm such a sucker for a nice angsty love story. That's also the second of my four wishlist movies:
Velvet Goldmine- yay for the goldmine.
A Beautiful Thing - awwwwwwness
Cemetary Man - Rupert Everett battling zombies, what's not to like? Unfortunately, I think it's in Italian which basically means I'll never find it.
Dark Harbour - Alan Rickman snogs another man, what's not to like? *g* Sorry, lainy *eg*

Comments

[lydia-petze.livejournal.com]

Yay indeed for the Goldmine - Ewan jumping up and down with that floppy doodle never fails to kill me ;-)

"Cemetary Man" is cycled through on SBS about once a year. Maybe you can write and request it - they're good like that.

"Dark Harbour" - gay nude Alan Rickmanm yes, but the film is seriously bad.

brilliant!

[nigeltde]

You can actually request something on SBS? Maybe that's why The Weatherwoman is always on....

Re: DH: Yeah, I've heard it's terrible. But still: nakie gay Alan Rickman? I'm there, baby.

Re: brilliant!

[lydia-petze.livejournal.com]

Oi, what's wrong with The Weatherwoman? ;-) Yes, fwiw, I've heard of people having their wishes granted by ol' Des.

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

the *specific* number on an adult IQ test is almost meaningless unless one knows the Standard Deviation -- an IQ of 130 with a SD of 15 is the *same score* as an IQ of 154 with a SD of 27

I will presume the IQ test had a SD ~ 16, just for the sake of the argument

that would mean that *on this test* you scored in the top 4% but not the top 2%

on a different test, you might get a very different score, so be careful not to put too much stock in it either way

mmm

[nigeltde]

yeah, that's what I meant. Emode rather stupidly neglected to provide a standard by which to judge your result. So, that SD must account for the fact that 'average' is sometimes 70, sometimes 100, sometimes 120. IQ tests are generally a load of bollocks anyway - but they're still fun to do.

Re: mmm

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

SD is not determined by average -- on any normal IQ test, 100 is supposed to be both mean (average) and median (50%ile, or "normal")

SD determines how "spread out" the non-average scores are, how much they *deviate* from the average

tossing a coin many many times, adding a zero for each tail and a one for each head, eventually a Guassian distribution should emerge, with 1/2 times the number of tosses as the approximate median and approximate mean (average)

then, checking the distribution, one could see how rare it would be to get at least 8 heads out of 10 consecutive tosses

the pretense is that IQ scores follow strict Gaussian distribution (a particular pattern associated with a certain type of randomness), which is simply incorrect

for that matter, median and average are NOT identical, so on a given test the average could be 100 but the 50th%ile, or most NORMAL score, could be, say 104

the whole idea of an IQ above 100 in an adult should be scrapped in favor of a percentile

an adult score of 120 with a SD of 16 means nothing more or less than "90%ile" (top one in ten) -- the 20 is an arbitrary number, and if the SD were changed to 48, the 120 magically becomes 160, ta dah, with the same meaning -- "90th%ile"

an adult who scores 150 on an IQ test with a SD of 16 knows nothing more than that he scored at approximatedly the 99.9th%ile (top one in one thousand) -- without knowledge of the SD, the 150 becomes "something well above average"